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Holy smokes! Candy got expensive AF. (TikTok screencap)

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[-] Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I think everyone should collectively decide to hold Halloween 2 days after Halloween so everyone can get in on that reduced price candy.

Takes the sting out of inflation a little bit and everyone still gets their good time in.

[-] Dohnuthut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

We stopped giving out candy and instead do chips, juice, gummies, cracker packs, etc. The cost is roughly the same, he kids send to love it, and we don't want to be stuck with a bunch of leftover candy.

[-] VampirePenguin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

Tricks it is, then.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

All tricks no treats this year kiddos.

[-] eletes@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

IKEA has full size bars for a dollar each. I think 30 of those would be better than a bag of small candies for $30

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

You don’t want to get known as the full bar house unless you wanna spend $500 bucks a year on candy at minimum

Mini bags at Costco tend to run $0.25 or less a piece

[-] Zanathos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Buy your candy at the end of August like I do and they are half price or even lower. This is what happens when you wait until what you would think the opportune time to buy your Halloween candy is.

[-] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 26 points 2 days ago

Odd that products made and packaged in the US, from government subsidized corn syrup, and not the most affected by tarrifs, still jump in price. Maybe inflation will be the scariest thing this Halloween

[-] JollyBrancher@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A majority of Hershey products have been made in Mexico for some time! It was "somehow" cheaper - possibly in part to tricklin' down trade agreements - to ship the ingredients there and then send the finished product back. As much a "fun" fact as the "fun-sized" candy. Even the JustBorne/The Peeps peoples of Pennsylvania manufacture a bunch in Canada.

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[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 16 points 2 days ago

What the hell is up with these prices?

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

It's just your typical Trump economy.

[-] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

but what about the price of 3ggs!

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

The avian flu caused egg shortage? Also easily linked back to policies put in place by the GOP.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

it's what happens when you elect economic geniuses

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 11 points 1 day ago

American pricing be like.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 55 points 2 days ago

Halloween just promotes socialism for children. If they want candy, get a job in the mine.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Wait, you don't just throw candy down the mine holes?

[-] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

As a kid I yearned for the mines

[-] JollyBrancher@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

And the ultra-wealthy yearn for the "mine!"

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[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 8 points 1 day ago

This can't be real. Someone please confirm?

-(sent from the UK)

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Its real. Its price gouging as only walmart can do it.

[-] Global_Liberty@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago

Confirmed. Same price on my Walmart app.

[-] null@lemmy.nullspace.lol 33 points 2 days ago

Get ready to see lots of posts marveling at how expensive common things are getting in the US

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Thanks Obama!

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

Almost as if the currency is in the toilet.

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[-] bigbabybilly@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago

Prices are fine in Canada. Happy Halloween, ‘Murica.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 52 points 2 days ago

I mean.. Those look like normal Canadian prices.

However, contextually, that stuff in Canada is actually chocolate and many US versions have little to no cocoa, and oils instead of milk ingredients. So its a rip off because its not even chocolate.

[-] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I normally do full sized bars considering how many people we get on average. I normally buy them at Costco Business and it looks like they're still priced the same. Prices at regular Costco are similar to what I remember of last year too.

We probably make most of our chocolate here. In the area around where I work there are at least 4 Mondelez plants. I know Mars has a few plants in or around the GTA as well.

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[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 147 points 2 days ago

And it tastes worse than ever.

[-] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 85 points 2 days ago

All that delicious palm oil

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[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

I'm a house that buys Full size Candy bars. We average 50 kids in our neighborhood, so generally 1 fundraiser box covers us.

I still have my 2024 screen shots and as you can see the price went up 31% I know it's not an exact comparison, but the box I gave away last year appears to have been discontinued. On lower count packs its gone up nearly 45%.

I was planning on doing Roasted Chestnuts and Apple cider for parents as a fun gag, but now I'm considering doing that exclusively.

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[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

But what about Helloween? Heavy Metal Hamsters enter chat!

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[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 80 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars /s

Looking at the prices of Snickers from CandyDirect.com you can get 15.8 lbs of fun sized (about 400+ pieces if my math is right with each bar at 17 grams) for $186. $0.46 each. Fuck what a scam.

Full bars are fucking $2.41 each in bulk. WTF

Also, some of these bags are huge. 350, 250, etc. pieces for $25, so 7¢ each. The top row center bags are 15¢ per piece. If you're not expecting a constant steam of kids, one of these might be all you need.

[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 86 points 2 days ago

At this point is cheaper to be the house with full candy bars

Okay, complete tangent, but...

When my kid was still Trick-or-Treating age, I was walking around town with him and as it was getting a bit late, we came upon a house with a man sitting out front with a half-full box of full-size candy bars. He gave my kid one, and my kid asked if he could have another. Before I could scold him, the man said "Sure!" and gave him another, then followed up with "You can have the whole box, if you want..."

My kid was obviously ecstatic, and after a minute of chatting with him, it came out that his wife had told him he had to stay out there til they were all gone, and he wanted to go inside and watch whatever game was on.

So that's how my kid ended up having the best Halloween of his life.

Similarly, my first Halloween at a new neighborhood. I go all out. I aspired to be the house my buddies and I would have talked about when we were kids. Decorations, sound effects, light show, etc… I run AV for a living, so it was all pretty basic for me. But with just some basic stuff, I had it looking really nice. This was my candy tray:

I had two trick-or-treaters. Two. Turns out, there just weren’t that many kids in my new neighborhood. That second kid got the entire tray.

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[-] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

At that price, I think I'll just hand out dollar bills. Kids love money, right?

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